MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warden was charged with theft on Tuesday for seizing guns from hunters and stashing them in his basement, according to court documents. David Horzewski, 45, was charged with six counts of felony theft in Sauk County Circuit Court on suspicion of keeping six firearms that he seized from hunters he had accused of breaking state hunting laws in incidents going back to 2003. An attorney was...

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warden was charged with theft on Tuesday for seizing guns from hunters and stashing them in his basement, according to court documents. David Horzewski, 45, was charged with six counts of felony theft in Sauk County Circuit Court on suspicion of keeping six firearms that he seized from hunters he had accused of breaking state hunting laws in incidents going back to 2003. An attorney was...

Harlan "Bud" Veerman, 61, has retired as warden of the Will County Jail after seven years in the post. Sheriff Tom Fitzgerald said he is looking for a replacement from within the Sheriff's Department, but in the meantime appointed Deputy Chief Martin Nowak as the acting warden. Veerman, who had been earning $55,000 a year, said he thought his retirement would help the county deal with its fiscal problems. He was appointed warden in 1984 by former Sheriff John Shelley.

While sitting out two of the last three seasons, Tyler Warden has learned the value of patience and not taking anything for granted. The Glenbard West product began his college journey by as a walk-on at Buffalo. He sat out his first and only season there before eventually switching from quarterback to tight end. "I got the best of both worlds at Buffalo because I didn't lose any playing experience and got to travel with the team," Warden said. "I definitely enjoyed it there.

Gerardo Acevedo has been named warden of the minimum-security East Moline Correctional Center on Thursday, making him the first Hispanic to run an Illinois prison. Gov. Jim Edgar and Department of Corrections Director Howard Peters III announced Acevedo's appointment at news conferences in Chicago and East Moline on Thursday. Acevedo, 37, a Chicagoan, had been a unit superintendent at the maximum-security Joliet Correctional Center since last May and has worked for the Department of Corrections since...

If you can't understand half of what the characters say in " Starred Up ," not to worry. It's an artistic choice on the part of director David Mackenzie ("Young Adam"), who clearly sees language as secondary in this brutal full-body immersion into the British prison system. There's something primal about the way these inmates communicate, mixing their heavily accented British prison slang with bursts of spontaneous aggression. It's a harrowing place to do time, but a surprisingly...

Recognition of the El Rukn Moorish Science Mosque as an organized religion in Illinois prisons would cause increased intimidation of inmates and prison staff, according to testimony Wednesday by the warden of Joliet Correctional Center. Warden J.W. Fairman Jr. testified in U.S. District Court in Danville that "recognition of the El Rukns...would certainly be an attraction to inmates looking for attention." Fairman testified before U.S. District Judge Harold A. Baker during the trial...

The Times of Northwest Indiana reports: The Lake County Jail warden has resigned after allegedly showing up drunk at the scene of a hit-and-run crash that killed a correctional officer and injured three other officers last week. Sheriff John Buncich said he asked for Jeff Kumorek's resignation. Get the full story: nwitimes.com

An assistant warden at the federal prison in Downstate Marion will take over as warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago effective Sunday. William Page True will succeed Mark Henry, who is being promoted to warden of a federal prison at Terminal Island, Calif.

Quarterback Dylan Warden scored Waubonsie Valley's final two touchdowns to lead the Warriors to a 27-21 overtime win against Neuqua Valley. He ran 15 yards with 1 minute, 13 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime and then won the game with a 6-yard run. "It was a tough play," Warden said of the game-winner. "They were close, but it worked. We made a good run. " After Joey Rhattigan's 21-yard scoring run gave Neuqua Valley (5-2,...

A career Federal Bureau of Prisons official who started his career as a correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center has been named warden of the South Loop federal jail. Jerome F. Graber, chief of the bureau's internal affairs office in Washington, is scheduled to take over at the MCC on Feb. 1. He started as a correctional officer there in 1976. Graber will succeed Charles R. Gilkey, who has been the institution's warden since March 1996. He is to take the top post at...

Jurors have resumed deliberations in the trial of a former Oklahoma prison warden's wife accused of helping a convicted killer escape and then living with him on a Texas ranch until their arrest more than a decade later. Bobbi Parker, 49, is charged with helping Randolph Franklin Dial escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, where her husband was deputy warden, in 1994. Dial had been sentenced to life in prison in 1986 after he confessed to...

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a lower court to dismiss a former prison warden's lawsuit against Gov. Rod Blagojevich. In a decision published Friday, the court ruled that under the state's job description, political affiliation is a legitimate requirement for the job of warden. Mark Pierson, who was hired under former Gov. George Ryan, a Republican, lost his job as warden of the Pinckneyville Correctional Center under Blagojevich, a Democrat. Pierson...

As she accompanied her husband on the first day of his 2005 federal corruption trial, Lura Lynn Ryan offered an observation about the man who was her high school sweetheart and partner in marriage for five decades. "Every day is a good day, as long as he's here," Mrs. Ryan said. George Ryan managed to be there one last time. The former Illinois governor, imprisoned for his crimes, persuaded a federal warden in Terre Haute, Ind., to let him out for a few hours Monday....

Forty-nine prisoners in Cremona City Jail marched out of their cells, but it wasn`t a mass breakout. They and their warden just decided it was time to go to the movies. The prisoners, accompanied by warden Flavia Pignanelli, the prison chaplain and a few guards, walked out of the prison's main gate about 9 p.m. Wednesday to catch the late showing of "The Lightship." About half the prisoners watched the movie while the rest chose to remain outside, chatting with their...

To Rob Warden, who was there at the beginning … When Gov. Pat Quinn put his signature on a bill Wednesday that abolished the death penalty in Illinois, he wrote the final line in a story that in a very real sense began when Warden, a former investigative reporter and editor at the Chicago Daily News, co-founded the Chicago Lawyer in 1978, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for the reinstatement of capital punishment. That scrappy, muckraking publication began...

Despite having spent more than half his adult life tracking wayward livestock, abandoned pets and sick or injured varmints, retired Kane County Animal Control Warden Phil Zavitz, affectionately known as "Beast Master," is the last to suggest he has seen it all. Just when the county's dog catcher and raccoon chaser thought he might have, he said, along came the next runaway lizard or displaced python, not to mention the unexpected meetings with...

As imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan continues his full-court press through the legal system to try to get to the side of his ailing wife, another option would be an emergency release from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, something granted to many inmates so they can attend a funeral or say goodbye to a dying loved one. Two weeks after a federal judge rejected bail for Ryan, his lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court seeking his...

The black steel gate rumbles open, and Jeanne Woodford walks through a dimly lit, century-old brick passageway into the sudden brightness of a prison yard. The first woman to run San Quentin State Prison in its 148-year history, Woodford has come a long way from her days as a guard inside these same walls. In 1978, fresh out of Sonoma State University, Woodford was in the vanguard of women entering the ranks of state prison guards. Now 47, she has spent almost her entire working...

Beau Warden acknowledges that Glenbard West has not faced a running back quite like 2,500-yard rusher Kapri Bibbs. It's doubtful Bibbs has squared off against a middle linebacker as good as Warden, and there's little doubt he has faced a defense as strong as Glenbard West's. Bibbs, whose 520-yard game earlier in the season made him one of the most talked about players in the state, versus Warden will go a long way toward...